Since the year 2000 over 8000 Palestinian children have been locked up. Today there are still 220 children suffering in Israeli jails. The children have complaint of sexual assaults by their jailers and threats of rape in order to coerce confessions and to coercing them to becoming informers on their families. For Israel its not about getting information the whole place is like a prison they know everything that goes on, but rather its a means to destroy families and with it the fabric of Palestinian society.
Similarly women prisoners are routinely tortured, and have to submit to strip searches in the middle of the night as a form of punishment, and they are denied their most basic needs like sanitary towels. Like we saw in Abu Ghraib, cameras are used as part of the torture when the women are shackled to their beds. In order to coerce confessions from the women not only are the women threatened with rape but their families are also threatened with rape in order to get the women to cooperate. Imagine if someone threatens you child like that in front of you in order to get you to confess? Even pregnant women are shown no mercy, their hands and feet are shacked right up to and after the moment of delivery.
Many prisoners are held in what's called administrative detention. What that means is that they are held indefinitely - could be 6 months, could be 1 year, could be 10 years, or a life time - they are never told, every 6 months it just gets renewed. They are not charged, and there is no trial - they are simply picked up an locked up. So for example a Palestinian footballer, Mahmoud Sarsak, was on his way to play a football match, Israeli soldiers kidnapped him at a checkpoint, he was not charged with anything and there was no trial - they just locked him up, six months became 1 year then two than three years. Imagine if you are caged like that what do you do?

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